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Researchers at France’s EPFL technical institute have developed a robot arm that can respond catch thrown objects on-the-fly, though they may not teach it quite the way you expect.
Prior approaches to making kinematically aware robots have had trouble with split-second response, for the same reason that we humans often have trouble with the same tasks: they’re difficult.
The arm must notice that an object is coming its way, watch the path of that object to predict its future positi...